If you have had the experience of seeing this man on stage, the eight minute clip below will come as no surprise.  Live on stage, he owns the interminable fuse and phenomenal explosion, both for comedic and dramatic (and sometimes both) effect.  He does something in a theater that film has not captured well. Until, trivially, now.  So bravo to the camera, and the person behind it, for finding Alan Rickman’s inner tea party gunpowder and lighting it: